It's hard to play a laptop in the midst of band and have people want to buy your t-shirts and CD's.

As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with production styles these days, but the nature of copyright is also changing as the internet becomes more of a giant.

I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.

My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors.

With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level.

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.